some unhappy news

[Cjhurtt6 at aol.com]

WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. officials allowed Nazi loot from a train out of 
Hungary to be sold, taken by American generals or turned over to Austria 
instead of returned to the Jews from whom it was confiscated during World War 
II, a presidential commission concluded today. The report listed five U.S. 
generals who took valuables. The items were seized shortly after the May 7, 
1945, Allied victory in Europe, the commission said. The commission was set 
up to advise the president on the fate of Holocaust victims' assets that may 
have come under the control of the U.S. government after the war